Subscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if you are going to secure your accounts using two-factor authentication (2FA), then using SMS is a bad idea. Not only has it been proven insecure, it’s also susceptible to SIM-swapping attacks. But relying on SMS can also have other unintended consequences. Case in point: just earlier this week, US telecom provider T-Mobile suffered a nationwide outage, hampering calls and text messages for almost…

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